Call Center Performance

Posted on May 07, 2019 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Consulting • Call Center DIY • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Contact Centre Ops • Employee Engagement • People management • retention • Turnover

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By Colin Taylor I asked a client recently how they had determined their contact center hours of operation. After a long pause they replied “I don’t know.” Many organizations don’t think too much about their hours of operations, or HOOPs; they are just a fact of life. The contact center is staffed during this window […]

Posted on April 16, 2019 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Employee Engagement • Hiring a call center consultant • People management • Positions • retention

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By Colin Taylor I read an interesting article by Jennifer J Deal at strategy+business looking at five myths we hold about Millennials. For the past number of years we have all heard horror stories about organizations that gave away iPads, spot bonuses, socially conscious and social responsible activities, but still had staff leave for greener pastures. […]

Posted on April 05, 2019 in AHT • Average handle time • Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Customer Experience Management • Customer Experience Metrics • Customer Satisfaction • Metrics • TRG

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AHT: the Most Misunderstood Metric in Call or Contact Centers By John Cockerill Average handle time is a wonderful tool. Everybody uses it and they believe they use it correctly. It’s a good measure particularly when you’re looking in a specific channel as to what is the midpoint of all of the call (contact) lengths that […]

Posted on March 29, 2019 in Agent Experience • Call Center Performance • Contact center consulting • Customer Experience • Customer service • Employee Engagement

By Peg Ayers Customer Experience (CX) can differentiate your company from your competitors. An effortless Customer Experience creates loyalty for your brand. Your customers could be yours for a lifetime! You know how much that’s worth to your organization. You want to provide the best Customer Experience possible. But how? Perhaps you’d like to investigate […]

Posted on March 19, 2019 in abandon rate • Best Practices • Call Center Performance • Customer Experience • Customer Satisfaction • Customer service • Customer Support • IVR • IVR • Quality

By Peg Ayers When my father passed away, I spent hours in queue, waiting for help from a variety of companies and agencies that should be providing service to those who call. In fact, they did all eventually provide the required service (except for one government agency that proved so difficult to reach, I gave […]

Posted on March 08, 2019 in Call Center Performance • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • People management • Success

By Colin Taylor What is a high performance contact center? High performance is generally accepted to mean performing at the top of any possible performance range. So a High performance contact center is one that meets or exceeds the performance parameters or metrics expected of it. In contact center these parameters will include quantitative: grade […]

Posted on March 05, 2019 in Agent Experience • Best Practices • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Education • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Leadership • People management • Quality Assurance • Quality assurance • Success • Training

By Peg Ayers Congratulations!  You’ve made it through year end performance evaluations, survived the challenges of January, and 2019 is starting off well for you!  You may be pleased that you don’t have to think about employee reviews again for many months.  But spending some time now could simplify the end of the year a […]

Posted on May 23, 2018 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Contact center consulting • Press Release

  The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., will be assisting one of Canada’s largest home improvement retailers in shifting from a Distribution business model to a Retailer Contact Center model to meet increasing consumer demands. TORONTO (PRWEB) May 23, 2018 The Taylor Reach Group, Inc, (TRG), a globally recognized Contact Center and Customer Experience (CX) consulting […]

Posted on May 15, 2018 in Call Center Performance • CSAT • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Metrics • FCR • FCR

By: Peg Ayers & Turaj Seryafiaan Definition: The percentage of customer contacts resolved during (or as a result of) the first contact, requiring no additional contacts. This is a key metric not only for customer satisfaction and retention but also in determining the overall work-load and operating expenses. In many Contact Centers, 75% First Contact […]

Posted on May 11, 2018 in Call Center Assessment • Call Center Audit • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Site Selection • Strategy

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By: Colin Taylor Consolidating Contact Centers Organizations today look across their customer-facing organization and see a cluster of Call Center or Contact Center activities: sales, technical support, customer service, returns, billing, collections etc. These Call Centers can exist in a company’s divisions or operating companies. Even small and medium-sized businesses can find that they have […]